Exciting Quad Bike Safari Through Botswana

Description

Depart from one of our main camps; sleep under the stars on an ancient and mysterious granite island in the middle of the vast emptiness of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans; experience enough exhilaration, intellect, style and adventure for three lifetimes!

The best way to get across the salt pan is a quad bike. This is low-impact trespass. Setting off early in convoy, bikes carry bedrolls, food and water, a long-range desert patrol driving Indian-fashion. Here you lose contact with time, space and direction.

As the sun begins to drop, a smudge on the horizon - Kubu Island! A 2.7 billion year old granite fist that rises unexpectedly out of the vast and empty salt pan flatness of Sowa Pan. Sleep out under the stars for two nights amongst the boulders and baobabs on Kubu Island.

The camp staff will get there first; boiling a cauldron of water bubbles for the shower suspended from a tree. The dining table is set and the drinks tray, with Beefeater, and Georgian fobs on bottle labels, stands waiting. A mobile drinks chest is set up by our trusty team and guests are able to lean back in their safari chairs while toasting around the roaring camp fire.

Dinners are three course culinary extravaganzas, laid out on white damask table linens decked with fine glassware and bone-handled silver. The next two days are spent exploring the fascinating and surreal surrounding area.

After two days of luxurious desolation, guests mount their quad bikes to journey back to the main camp for an evening of surreal-ly contrasting sumptuous relaxation! The most important aspect of these trips is that it gives the guests a chance to truly understand the Makgadikgadi Pans. There is the sense of true adventure and active involvement.

Whether you are an individual, a couple, a family or a group, we can plan your itinerary for any Southern African adventure!

Facilities include a magnificent mess tent containing a small natural history museum and library, a tea tent spread with cushions providing a sheltering sanctuary, and a tented yoga pavilion.

Quad biking adventure in Botswana